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Truly a pivotal moment in a young man’s life

Whenever I hear someone say "Israel is at war with Hamas"...

https://youtu.be/rRy5znLg1f8?si=cF14fCmTXeNRQToc

Either direct donations to devs who do work your value (but that requires following bitcoin development fairly closely and knowing who is doing what) or donating to dev funds like Open Sats and trusting they will allocate prudently.

Ultimately, I would love to see a significant portion of bitcoiners tithe some portion of their annual income to open source dev funds. This is a religion, after all.

Can clovyr help manage a federation that’s already been created? We’ve already created ours but managing gateways and upgrading to 0.3 has been a pain

Coffee is the cats of beverages. Rationally, no-one should like it, but it possesses chemicals that colonize your brain and convince you its incredible.

GE. People who drag lightning have never spliced funds into channel.

I swear, splicing is like some kind of black magic. I must have listened to a dozen pods on it, and yet it still feels like something out of Harry Potter... "Accio channel resize!"

GM. Autumn is the best season in New Zealand. It's not even close.

I am suspicious of anyone who likes memory foam

Sometimes I wonder if artists are so attuned to what is going on in the culture and can intuit things even if they can't intellectually explain their intuitions.

You can feel in the rock of that era that they knew what was coming - a descent into despair, emptiness, nihilism. They may not have known the money was at the root of it, but they could still sound the alarm that something is profoundly wrong...and it's corroding our psychology.

Garbage, Placebo, Muse, The Pixies... The late 90s/early 2000s were the peak of alt rock

I question the entropy you could generate with those

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

I go to NYC several times per year for one reason or another. For work, for friends, etc.

Part of me likes it, but part of me gets fucking frustrated multiple times per day every time I am here. (Sorry, this is a Nostr Lyn post).

There are plenty of neat things in NYC that I can’t do at the same scale/quality elsewhere in the world due to the network effects around the city (broadway shows, financial district, etc), and yet after a day or two all I want to do is leave. It feels claustrophobic on multiple fronts.

People all have different vibes but for me, major cities are fun to visit but smaller secondary cities or suburbs around cities are so much smoother to live in. I can’t imagine living all the time in a major city.

The same applies to Cairo, to which I have been in far more total days than NYC. I like Cairo’s satellite cities but not Cairo itself other than going briefly.

Every time I am in a major city I am immediately reminded of the luxury of space, nature, quiet, parking spaces, and chillness of not being in a city. Everything I take for granted normally is now a luxury to fight for in a city.

Even politics are largely correlated to urbanization. If you live in rural or suburban areas, you likely drive around in your own car, you might have some land, etc. Your interaction with the local government exists in a moderate sense. The potential weakness is that you are more likely to always be around those who are similar to you, which minimizes your worldliness.

In contrast to all that, in major cities, everything is so tightly packed, and people rely on public transportation, and even a momentary lapse of government services (eg trash collection) becomes an acute catastrophe. But on the beneficial side, people are around those who are different than them more often, which breeds worldliness.

That’s why I tend to like the zone between rural and major cities. I like secondary cities or suburbs of major cities, because I get a bit of both worlds. The density and interconnectedness of major cities briefly, and the space and self-autonomy outside of them most of the time.

And yet I was born and raised in that sort of inbetween state, and so maybe it is just my upbringing.

What about you? Can anyone sell me the idea of NYC or other major cities that I am missing, especially in the remote work era? I see glimpses of how it could be attractive if you are used to it and know every detail of your neighborhood, but it really does feel limiting to me.

I feel similarly, which is why I live on the outskirts of one of New Zealand’s secondary cities.

Christchurch is not a hub for anything, but there is enough of the conveniences of a big city along with the excitement, social and cultural aspects, without ever really feeling claustrophobic. Even though it has population of 350,000, the feel is much more like a large town than a city. And there is this sense of interpersonal harmony as a result.

I went to college in the US and would spend summer holidays in NYC. The thing that stood out to me the most was the palpable tension in the air. You could feel the distrust and hostility people had for one another, and saw it displayed in a myriad of ways (constant honking, cutting people off in traffic, yelling obscenities, not making eye contact, not moving to the side to pass one another on the sidewalk, throwing trash on the street…). The level of inconsiderateness was staggering, as was the seeming lack of personal responsibility.

Just being in NYC for several weeks, I could feel it beginning to impact my psychology. Perhaps there is something about living like caged rodents in such a densely populated area that warps us and makes us more callous as humans…

Well this is disappointing. Anyone know what the deal is here?

Welcome to the revolution, npub1tccnjexzau3x5ea8c69v047nqfy3xm4w4yl9j788sts0usl87nhsvce6fh! Love your work

Do you have a list of recommended mints? It would be super neat to just open up a Cashu app, like eNuts, and be able to select from a list of mints... Kinda like you select from a list of Nostr relays

When you actually own bitcoin there are no 'trading hours'. You can spend it whenever you want, on whatever you want.

tfw you are the only non-coinbase tx in a liquid block

good evening

Love how nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m doesn't mess around with his zaps šŸ’Ŗ

Dude is the Oprah of Nostr

Defined is tricky, since those all came later in life. These all had a major impact at various points, though:

Books: His Dark Materials trilogy, The Fountainhead, Man's Search for Meaning, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Non-violent Communication: A Language of Life

TV Shows: Firefly, Dragonball Z, The first season of Heroes...not much else comes to mind

Movies: V for Vendetta, The Matrix, Ferriss Bueller, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Fight Club, A Knight's Tale, Minority Report, Charlie's Angels (the Cameron Diaz one)

Loving your food diary recently!

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Good evening

ā€œIt is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bearā€ nostr:note1vfcdfsvujkg9t2ghegxz3l2pp9mat3tezgey5t6csqnm5g4nq9rq22tlp0

Enjoying the cherry blossoms and reflecting on the precious brevity of life whilst Fincen seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of financial privacy.

Good evening.

Is there any mobile Lightning wallet that has integrated Bolt12 recurring payments?